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Cairncross Discusses Cyber Resilience and the New Cyber Strategy on the Washington AI Network Podcast

March 21, 2026 · Washington AI Network · 0:26:46

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What happened

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross sat down with host Tammy Haddad for episode 72 of the Washington AI Network Podcast, “Cyber Resilience in a High-Risk World,” in a live conversation recorded at The House at 1229 in Washington, D.C. and published on March 21, 2026, according to the podcast. Cohesity CEO and president Sanjay Poonen joined the conversation.

According to the podcast’s description, they discussed President Trump’s new cyber strategy and cybercrime executive order, the growing role of the private sector in protecting critical infrastructure, and how AI is reshaping both cyber risk and cyber defense.

Why it matters

This conversation sits in the middle of Cairncross’s March 2026 strategy cluster on this chronicle — the McCrary Institute Cyber Focus walk-through of the National Cyber Strategy’s six pillars on March 12 and the USTelecom Cyber Innovation Forum on March 27 — and it is the one aimed at a general Washington audience rather than a cyber-industry one: the strategy and the cybercrime executive order explained alongside a private-sector security chief, in the public-private frame the Office of the National Cyber Director has made its signature.

Sources: Washington AI Network Podcast, episode 72, “Cyber Resilience in a High-Risk World with Sean Cairncross and Sanjay Poonen,” March 21, 2026 (embedded above). Characterizations as stated in the podcast’s description.